“Green” Imperialism On The March

“Green” imperialism on the march

While much of the world has been battling desperately against the nascent techno-totalitarian global police state, another aspect of the insidious Great Reset is being pushed through largely under the public radar.

This is a massive land grab on an unprecedented scale, notably in Africa, using the mask of “conservation” and “protecting nature” to throw people off their land, wreck their nature-friendly ways of existence and suck them into the planetery industrial death-machine.

Great work is being done to expose this attempted robbery by the likes of Stephen Corry, Fiore Longo, Survival International and the No New Deal for Nature campaign.

The message is now even getting out there through mainstream journals like Scientific American, which notes in its October 2021 editorial the danger of “a new model of colonialism” that “forces those least responsible for climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental crises to pay the highest price for averting them”.

Projects like 30×30 “could be used by elites in democratically challenged nation-states as a pretext for seizing land from marginalized groups”, it adds.

And in France a book on the subject has been successfully raising awareness on the issue.

In L’invention du colonialisme vert (‘The Invention of Green Colonialism’), Guillaume Blanc warns that in their bid to “protect” 30% or even 50% of the planet, the globalist powers are essentially aiming to rid vast swathes of the non-Western world of all indigenous life.

He says that the “naturalization” of parts of Africa effectively amounts to “dehumanization” and involves “putting areas inside parks, banning agriculture, excluding people, getting rid of their fields and grazing grounds in order to create a supposedly natural world without humans”. (1)

This is achieved by forced resettling of populations and the social disintegration that goes along with it, together with the use of fines, prison sentences, beatings, even rapes and murders. Missionary-like brainwashing propaganda, via the inevitable “participatory workshops”, has also been used to persuade people to leave their land.

Blanc explains that the narrative is always the same. The international conservation “experts” claim to be working for harmonious global governance. Their principles are supposedly moral – they are said to be fighting poverty, hunger and disease – and their standards are presented as ethical, in that the development they they are promoting is allegedly sustainable, community-based and participative.

He says that globalisation is being imposed on Africa under the deeply contradictory watchword of “giving nature to the people; preventing the people from living in it”. (2)

There are echoes of the historical enclosures in England and elsewhere in the way that living on the land, in traditional ways, has been criminalised in order to bring about disempowerment and helpless dependence on an industrial system.

But here, Europeans’ strongly-felt loss of our natural surroundings is being used as an emotional tool to justify the land grab. A false image has been built up, explains Blanc, according to which Africa is a virgin natural paradise threatened by the presence of its own indigenous human inhabitants.

The love of nature, and the desire to protect it, is thus twisted and weaponized into a new excuse to pillage and colonise Africa.

The hypocrisy of the fake-green conservationists is astounding. Peasant farmers in Africa are accused of “destroying nature”, while they in fact produce their own food, eat very little meat or fish, very rarely buy new clothes, move around on foot and don’t own computers or smart phones.

Blanc comments: “If we want to save the planet, we should all be living like them”. (3) Instead, such people are being ruthlessly driven from the land.

“These environmental policies were invented by Europeans during the colonial period,” Blanc explains. “And since independence, they have been put into practice by African states. Their leaders are sovereign, but they answer systematically to the commands of international conservation institutions.

“Behind every social injustice endured by those living close to nature in Africa, we always find UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization], the WWF [World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund], the IUCN [International Union for Conservation of Nature] or Fauna and Flora International”. (4)

Fauna and Flora International, incidentally, was originally set up in 1903 by a group of British aristocrats and American politicians as ‘The Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire’.

They had no need to drop the last word in that title.

1. Guillaume Blanc, L’invention du colonialisme vert: pour en finir avec le mythe de l’Edem africain (Paris: Flammarion, 2020), p. 16.
2. p. 210.
3. pp. 29-30.
4. pp. 27-28.